Deciding when to incorporate new standards and tools into
your learning ecosystem can make evaluation difficult. With the ADL’s release
of cmi5 in June 2016 as the xAPI profile for LMS/content communication, a wave
of LMS and authoring tools have embraced the specification. Other authoring
tools have been slower to adopt cmi5, opting to rely on xAPI-enabled SCORM
modules to extend tracking beyond the limited data points of SCORM.

This session will look at cmi5 conformance for authoring
tools and LMS, allowing attendees to make educated buying decisions. xAPI
enthusiasts will gain an understanding of extending cmi5 capabilities through
xAPI. You will explore commercially available authoring tool and LMS adoption
of cmi5, including the structure of xAPI statements generated by those tools.
More importantly, you will review how to use those statements for reporting on
a variety of interactions within an online content module.

In this session, you
will learn:

About cmi5 support for various authoring tools
and LMS

About the benefits and limitations of
xAPI-enabled SCORM content

About the infrastructure you need to support
xAPI and cmi5 within your organization

About options for cmi5 adoption within an
organization

Audience:

Intermediate to advanced designers, developers, managers,
and directors with a general understanding of eLearning standards such as
SCORM, AICC, and cmi5.

Technology discussed
in this session:

Authoring tools, LMS, and LRS.

Art Werkenthin

President

RISC

Art Werkenthin, president of RISC, built his first learning management system (LMS) in 1988 and now has over 25 years’ experience working with LMS in the oil and gas, retail, finance, and other industries. Art is keenly interested in the xAPI specification, and RISC was an early adopter of this technology. Interested in expanding the xAPI to the LMS, Art has served for the past three years on the ADL cmi5 committee. In 2015, RISC demonstrated the first implementation of a cmi5 runtime engine embedded in its LMS. Art has presented on cmi5 at several conferences, including mLearnCon, DevLearn and xAPI Camp.

Duncan Welder

Director of Client Services

RISC

Duncan Welder is a director of client services for RISC. He is an educational technology geek, having spent over 20 years implementing learning management systems, domestically and abroad, to manage regulatory compliance. As an xAPI evangelist with a career grounded in instructional design and eLearning, Duncan has provided presentations to professional organizations including the Connections Forum, The eLearning Guild, and the Association for Talent Development. Duncan is an active member of the Houston ATD, currently serving as director of special interest groups.